Bay Area museums

I’ve seen 5 or 6 of them here in the Bay Area in the past 4 months. For free. Yes. No small thanks to Bank of America whose cardholders get free museum passes. On the first weekend of every month, all I had to do was come to the admission counter, wave my BOFA debit card and in I go.

Trivia: Did you know that most museums will ask you to not wear your backpacks? You either wear it in front of you or carry it by hand. I think it’s because we’re not cautious about our backs and a worn backpack may accidentally scratch paintings or topple over bust sculptures.

Anyway, with the BOFA card, I visited the following museums –

April – De Young Museum, San Francisco

May – Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco

May – Cantor Arts Center, Palo Alto (Free for everyone, all year long)

June – Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

July – Legion of Honor, San Francisco

I enjoy going to museums. I tend to like both classical and modern arts. Renaissance paintings have a special place for me though. I end up lingering longer in galleries of medieval painting and sculptures. I love ogling closer as I can to the nearly chipping oil paint on the canvasses. I like black and white photography in modern arts, too. At the War Remnants Museum in Saigon, I expected to just see pictures or preserved ammunitions and war whatnots but I surprised myself by stepping out of the museum with a new world view about America’s meddling into other countries’ affairs.

This reminds me…

I have the following museums to check out when I go back home to Manila –

Ayala Museum (I’m even planning on getting an annual membership, which is just P500)